On Sun, 2023-01-22 at 12:58 +0100, Francesco Pretto wrote:
> I hope to have been convincing enough.
Hi,
I'm sorry, I feel dumb, I do not follow.
I agree it's a good thing to allow users build the project against a
distro-provided software/packages, it saves a lot of work for the
consumers of it, but it's also a common practice that they can build it
with the dependencies they prefer. Aka satisfy the dependency hell on
their own, if needed.
PoDoFo is an Open Source project and will stay that way (I hope and
believe so), thus the requirement to get to the source, for the PoDoFo
itself, is a no-op, that's satisfied by the nature of the project. If
you mean that the closed source forks of it with internal modifications
would have a complication and that makes you feel the LGPL dependency
would be a problem for such companies, then, well, from my point of
view, frankly, such companies never understood the idea of the Open
Source, collaboration and all those good things the Open Source
provides not only to the community, but to the users/consumers/anybody
else. Explicitly supporting companies which are not willing to share
their changes with the community is so backwards and a selfish attitude
of such companies that I'd never be willing to share the code with
them. Just my humble opinion, living in the spirit of the Open Source.
> OpenSSL is now a requirement of PoDoFo: It would be way better if
> PoDoFo just supported AES3 without supplying an additional
> dependency.
I agree with this, especially if it'll mean to have one less dependency
(I do not recall for what all the libidn is used in the PoDoFo, I'm
only lurking on the mailing list for the many past months).
Bye,
zyx
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